ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,779, issued on May 13, was assigned to Continental Automotive Systems Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Apparatus and method for confidence evaluation for messages received from traffic control devices" was invented by Ulrich Staehlin (Oakland Township, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A confidence score (or other measure) that is related to the reliability of map data (MAP) messages is received at a vehicle. Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) messages are received from other vehicles and compared to the MAP-compliant messages. For example, behavior and position of the other vehicles in view of the content of the MAP messages is evaluated fo...